Want more teardowns? Check out our Navdy Heads Up Display and iRobot® Braava® 380t Mopping Robot teardowns. Vector is a pet robot whose design allows it to intuitively interact with its surroundings. The high cost of production, combined with the relatively low price for the product, may have contributed to the company’s struggles. The implementation has been done using the Anki vector robot. Overall, this product seemed over-engineered and highly complicated for the few simple tasks Vector could complete.
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If a smaller amount of units were produced, the manual assembly would have been manageable, compared to the high cost of the injection molds required. If a large number of units were produced, the cost of the molds were likely accounted for, but the manual assembly would have cost a notable amount of time and money. To that extent, Anki had programmed dozens of. The toy robot, which resembled Pixar’s Wall-E, had a built-in emotion engine which allowed it to pick up and react to a human’s emotions. Later, a version called Vector was introduced as well. It is unclear how many units Anki produced, but the product itself was not designed for mass assembly. Apart from the racing game, Anki also developed and sold a smart A.I. Many parts of this product required heavy amounts of manual labor, making it difficult and sometimes impossible to automate. In addition to interacting with his surroundings autonomously, Vector is a cloud-connected, self-updating robot, able to recognize and act on voice commands. These parts were likely found to be effective in prototyping but were presumably not designed for mass manufacturing.
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Some of these parts had features, such as gear teeth and overmolds, that would have caused these molds to become a significant cost driver. Requirements: a compatible iOS or Android device and the free vector app for set up only. Robot Companion - Powered by AI and advanced robotics, hes alive with personality and engaged by sight, sound and touch. It has Alexa built-in, letting it help control your home. We counted roughly 40 plastic parts, which would have likely needed around 30 unique (and very complex) molds. The Anki Vector is a seriously smart robot that can see hear, feel, think, and communicate. However, upon opening up the robot, we noticed the vast amount and complexity of the plastic injection molded parts.
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Prior to the teardown, we believed that the main cost driver in the Vector would be the electronics, due to the complexity of the product and what it claimed to be able to do. This threading process is not unlike threading a needle and therefore requires a fair amount of manual labor, which is again not a scalable process. The colored wires leaving the board are threaded through a special plastic piece that requires the wires to be threaded through prior to soldering and attaching the plug at the end. The main board has wiring issues similar to the petting feature.
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